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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

We at Cake Wrecks realize that there are some of you who don't celebrate Christmas. Or Hanukkah. Or Kwanzaa. Or any other winter holiday. Heck, you probably don't even like winterall that much. Or snow. Or puppies. Basically, there's just no making you happy.So, in an effort to placate your scrooge-ish sensibilities, today's commentary will be completely made up of awkward, holiday-free small talk. Enjoy.

LOL, the first half almost sounded like a conversation with me - I don't celebrate any winter holidays, I don't have a TV so I know nothing about current TV shows (or pretty much any in the last 10 years), and I'm lactose intolerant.

OK, I just spent 15 minutes of my work day making sure they hadn't cancelled Castle. NOT funny, Jen! Nathan Fillion is not something you can joke about! :-) *gasping for air* Oh, and the cakes were terrible.

Firefly is the best!!! Those dang Reavers creeped the bajeebers out of me though.. Can't imagine not celebrating any winter holidays, what will you then get stressed out about if not hosting your 13 people large immediate family while heavily preggers?

To get to all the charities at once, select the Click Here link, then in the First Giving banner at the top of the page select Home. Type in Jen Yates in the search box and enter. This brings them all up at once. Nice way to see how much each charity raised.

I think #1 is a snowman skeleton. And I like how someone must have changed their minds about buying a dead dinosaur cake.

I love the happy birthday/dead dinosaur cake. Being that today is my birthday, I'm doing everything to celebrate that has NOTHING to do with Christmas. No Santa socks, no red t-shirt, NOTHING! Us Christmas babies get the shaft every year. I do not want to celebrate Christmas today. Tomorrow, bring it on. So thanks for meeting my needs with the entire post! :)

Okay I have to say I check out CakeWrecks every day and I absolutely love it. I do, however, have an issue with being called a scrooge because my religious beliefs and convictions prevent me from celebrating a certain holiday. I don't want to ruin anyone's fun, but I just wanted to say that I myself am VERY happy and winter is my FAVORITE season. I'm not mad and I don't want to make anyone else upset, that's not why I'm posting at all. I just wanted you to know that just because some people may not celebrate the same holidays you do, doesn't mean they're scrooges, and maybe they have a good reason for it.

First photo -- scariest thing is, there appears to be an army of those things. In Florida.

*sigh* I think you just pulled the best Halloween scare I ever had... at the 'holiday' time of year. Castle and cancelled in the same sentence? Total horror! How could you?? (I love when he brings his Mal character into the current series.) I love the pause button, too. *sigh*

People must really hate having birthdays at *********. Y'know, that time of year some people celebrate, and others don't?

Speaking of Halloween... is that French snowman from the Nightmare Before... said unsaid holiday?

I'm at a loss on the red blob with lopsided lips.

A pac-man holiday? Jeepers, every video game is now trying to barge into the season.

I can see why you were headed to the bathroom after that red/green blobbed ?dog?

Let's see. As an anonymous commenter already pointed out, the Pac-Man cookie is "simple and easy to do."

Buy a big cookie at the store. Next, you will need frosting. Two or three pounds ought to do, but it must be yellow. If you don't have yellow frosting, use butter. If you don't have that either, you can use lard with half a bottle of yellow food coloring mixed in. Add a few drops of vanilla extract and drink the rest.

Grab a trowel from the tool shed and apply the frosting. If you get it on anything except the cookie, you have to start over from the beginning.

Finally, have someone who actually knows how to do stuff cut out the mouth and write your message, and you're done! No one will know that you don't care in the slightest.

I am offended, though, that the cookie in the picture mentions 'holidays'. How exclusivistic (if that's even a word) and insensitive. Couldn't it have just said, 'Happy Days'? No one will think it refers to the TV show, because it's a Pac-Man cookie.

Hey, this may have already been mentioned, but you may want to think twice about donating to Heifer. It's a nice idea, but the people who even get some of these animals cannot afford to care for them and they often die of sickness or disease. baby chickens that are shipped overseas often die before they get to where they're going. Additionally, Heifer has already been featured on Oprah, so even if they're good all around, they've already gotten TONS of publicity.

As an animal lover, I ask that you look into this organization a little more closely, and maybe pick a charity that could use the bump, or at least something more local.

Reading a Castle, Joss Whedon AND Firefly reference in one blog made me very happy. Just hoping that they DONT cancel Castle like everyone says. That is one of my absolute favorite favorite current shows right now.

I don't celebrate Christmas, hate winter, rarely drink, am lactose intolerant and my husband is an accountant. So while I am feeling a little made fun of at the moment I still love the blog (both of them!). See I'm fun!!!!

I laughed really hard when I saw the fruffy mound of white icing spray-painted green.Then I laughed really hard when I saw that it was a lap dog.Then I just said "What the heck???" over and over when I noticed the size of the dog's head.

This made me sad and kind of offended... you're really purporting the idea that people who don't celebrate any holidays are miserable human beings that hate puppies? Just because I don't have a faith or anything doesn't mean I hate everything... thank you so much for helping spread this horrible stereotype. I would have expected better.

So glad to see Heifer International promoted on the site. My grandparents have volunteered at the Heifer International Ranch in Arkansas for almost 14 years, and have made several trips to other countries to see the good that the organization is doing firsthand. Amazing stories. I love what you're doing for donations, as well as the blog!

Really? Do you really think we're suggesting that people who don't celebrate this time of year are scrooges? Really? Do you really think that Jen and I believe that if you don't celebrate Christmas, you don't like puppies and snow?

I missed the crucial "if" in the Castle statement, and my first thought was that if anyone would know about Castle being canceled, it would be Jen! I about died. I didn't make it back to the cake post for a good 5 minutes as I googled frantically. Whew. It's good to see I'm not the only commenter that was worried. I LOVE that show.

Castle is definitely the best show on tv right now! And totally agree that Firefly is awesome. I didn't watch it until it was already off the air but have seen it at least 2-3 times already. LOVE the Firefly references they sneak into Castle too, especially his Halloween costume this season!!

I've visited today's CWs three times (morning, noon, night) with the hope that at least some of them would make some sense later in the day. Didn't happen. Especially the last two. Very confused. Going to bed now. Need sleep.

1. Love the commentary. 2. If you (the reader, not the writers) don't like the charity du jour, then don't donate. Simple.3. I never take the commentary or intros too seriously, as the whole purpose of this blog is to provide humor, and hopefully I'm not in the minority. I don't believe I've ever been offended by anything I've seen or read here. You all rock.

john - Don't waste any energy or brain cells worrying about it! Some people are just looking for a reason to be offended. Too sensitive and self-absorbed. Waaa. (On the other hand, my prior statements may be offensive to them. Hm. If the shoe fits...)

You and Jen are fantastic and big-hearted with wicked senses of humor!

Oooh.. you scared so many poor people. Thankfully Castle is doing just great and ABC is very happy with the way it's performing...if you're every worried - keep an eye on the fan site for any news (check out the spoilers there too *wink*) it's the most accurate source of info.

Oh, wait, I got something. That thing, the one with the triangular tag stuck in it? I thought it made sort of a cute Santa, in a sort of post-modern kind of way. Other than that, these are the Ugliest Pastries this month.

Thanks for the LOL. I can't be bothered to make small talk with the fam anymore, it's already been 4 days with them!, and now they think I'm crazy for laughing because they don't know I'm reading cakewrecks :)merry christmas :)

OMG, I LOVE Firefly!! I was heartbroken they only got to make one season. Serenity helped wrap some stuff up, but Firefly should have been given a chance. Nathan Fillion was also in season 7 of Buffy, he played the creepy priest working for the First.

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